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Amazon.com (XSGO:AMZN) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 1.20 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Amazon.com's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0 Mil. Amazon.com's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $135,611 Mil. Amazon.com's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $112,876 Mil. Amazon.com's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.20.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Amazon.com's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

XSGO:AMZN' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.18   Med: 1.67   Max: 3.65
Current: 1.52

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Amazon.com was 3.65. The lowest was 1.18. And the median was 1.67.

XSGO:AMZN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
70.49% of 837 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 2.67 vs XSGO:AMZN: 1.52

Amazon.com Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Amazon.com's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Amazon.com Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.69 1.65 1.57 3.65 1.52

Amazon.com Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.82 2.20 1.74 1.36 1.20

Competitive Comparison

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Amazon.com's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Amazon.com Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Amazon.com's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Amazon.com's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Amazon.com Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Amazon.com's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0 + 135611) / 89402
=1.52

Amazon.com's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0 + 135611) / 112876
=1.20

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Amazon.com  (XSGO:AMZN) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.


Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.


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Amazon.com (XSGO:AMZN) Business Description

Address
410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA, USA, 98109-5210
Amazon is a leading online retailer and one of the highest-grossing e-commerce aggregators, with $386 billion in net sales and approximately $578 billion in estimated physical/digital online gross merchandise volume in 2021. Retail-related revenue represents approximately 80% of the total, followed by Amazon Web Services' cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (10%-15%), advertising services (5%), and other. International segments constitute 25%-30% of Amazon's non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

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